America's Unique Deaf Stories; Established 1996; 22nd year

2017/11/06

This past weekend DeafDigest ran a video about“Deaf-Mute Property” in Little Rock, valuedat $181,000. It was just learned that itwas an alley behind the old Arkansas Schoolfor the Deaf before the school moved toits present location. This part of thealley was 30 feet long and was for sale.Still, why “Deaf-Mute Property”? Apicture is at:

A deaf man, seeking a job in a bank, wasarrested in public. He attended a speech by agovernment official, ran over to him andhanded him a note on the stage. The policestopped him and arrested him, thinking hewas going to cause a riot. The note was toask for a job in a bank. At this point, thepolice does not know what to do with him,because what he did was bad manners, but nota crime. It could only happen in India!

— two choices for deaf that love opera

There are deaf people that love opera. There aretwo choices – to watch the surtitles, or to wearcaptioning glasses. What is the difference?Hard to explain – but surtitles (on a stage screen)shows edited translations of what is being sung.Captions is word for word and includes “interruptions”such as phone is ringing, door knocking, etc.